oils."
_Whins_, furze.
_Whisquer_, windy, blustering.
_Whittle_, a knife.
_Whupshaft_, a whip handle.
_Wi'_, with.
_Widdie_, a rope; a gallows.
_Widdle_, to wriggle, bustle; to attain by violent exertion.
_Wight_, courageous, stout.
_Wimple_, a curl, an undulation.
_Window-bole_, "the part of a cottage-window that is filled by a wooden
blind, which may occasionally be opened."
_Windlin_, a bottle of straw or hay.
_Wink_, an instant, a twinkling.
_Windlestrae_, a stalk of ryegrass.
_Winna_, will not.
_Wist_, wished.
_Wisp_, to clean; to tie up with straw; a handful of straw.
_Withershins_, the contrary direction.
_Wizen_, weasand, the throat.
_Woad_, mad.
_Woo_, wool.
_Woodie_, diminutive of wood.
_Worry_, to strangle, to suffocate.
_Wow_, the cry of a cat.
_Wrang_, wrong, injury, hurt.
_Wud_, mad.
_Wuss_, to wish.
_Wylie-coat_, a flannel vest.
_Wyte_, to blame, to find fault with.
_Yaird_, a yard, a kitchen garden.
_Yeld_, barren.
_Yer_, your.
_Yerk_, to writhe, to start with pain.
_Yeuky_, itchy.
_Yewns_, "the refuse of grains blown away by the fanners."
_Yirr_, to snarl like a dog.
_Yokin_, the time that a horse should be in a cart.
_Yoursel_, yourself.
_Yowl_, to howl; the cry of a dog.
_Yule_, Christmas.
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